Officers patrolling for drunken drivers tried to pull over the girl's Honda sport utility vehicle when they spotted it heading south on Crenshaw Boulevard at Torrance Boulevard. The vehicle was straddling a lane and had its headlights turned off.

The girl, however, sped away, heading south on Crenshaw, west on Carson Street, north on Hawthorne Boulevard and east on Manhattan Beach Boulevard.

Officers bumped her car and caused it to spin around when she slowed to turn at Van Ness Avenue, Jenkinson said.

Officers surrounded the car and arrested the girl on suspicion of evading arrest and being unlicensed.

Police determined she was not drunk. She told officers she had never been stopped by the police and was scared, Jenkinson said.